Iroha
Sign in to saveThe is a Japanese poem. Originally the poem was attributed to Kūkai, the founder of Shingon Buddhism, but more modern research has found the date of composition to be later in the Heian period (794–1179). The first record of its existence dates from 1079. It is famous because it is a perfect pangram, containing each character of the Japanese syllabary exactly once. Because of this, it is also used as an ordering for the syllabary, in the same way as the A, B, C, D... sequence of the Latin alphabet.
Key facts
- Poem.name
- Iroha
- Poem.image
- New Edition of Iroha Brigade Characters (Shinpan iroha kumiji).jpg
- Poem.image_size
- 200px
- Poem.caption
- Firefighters' insignia organized according to the Iroha
- Poem.original_title
- いろは歌
- Poem.original_title_lang
- ja
- Poem.country
- Japan
- Poem.language
- Japanese/hiragana
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Wikidata facts
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- language of work or name
- Early Middle Japanese
- first line
- 以呂波耳本部止
- last line
- 恵比毛勢須
- form of creative work
- poem
- copyright status
- public domain
- time of earliest written record
- 1079-00-00
- Commons category
- Iroha
- used by
- iroha order
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Current uses
- Origin
- See also
- Other languages
- Notes
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The is a Japanese poem. Originally the poem was attributed to Kūkai, the founder of Shingon Buddhism, but more modern research has found the date of composition to be later in the Heian period (794–1179). The first record of its existence dates from 1079. It is famous because it is a perfect pangram, containing each character of the Japanese syllabary exactly once. Because of this, it is also used as an ordering for the syllabary, in the same way as the A, B, C, D... sequence of the Latin alphabet.
==Text== The first appearance of the Iroha, in was in seven lines: six with seven morae each, and one with five. It was also written in man'yōgana.
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